ethnos
IPA: ˈɛθnoʊs
noun
- An ethnic group, or a people who have a common national or cultural tradition.
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Examples of "ethnos" in Sentences
- This is not a category limited to any political persuasion or any particular ethnos.
- There is an Arab ethnos (look it up), nation, call it what you like, and there is a Jewish one.
- They saw political rights for women as detrimental to the Greek nation (ethnos) and the race (fili).
- Jesus commanded his Jewish followers to go to all people groups (all ethnos, the Greek word for “nations”).
- We now have 36 states, most of them broken along the closest lines of the "ethnos" according to the Awoist ideal.
- It should be noted here that the proper word for a tribe in a non-urbanized community was ethnos, as is shown by the documents of the Delphic Amphictyone.
- Rabanus: Ethnici, that is, the Gentiles, for the Greek word ethnos is translated ` gens 'in Latin; those, that is, who abide such as they were born, to wit, under sin.
- When the term “Arab” was used for most of the last millenium, it could not refer to a distinct unitary ethnos, but to a broader culture with a shared high culture and religion – much like Latin European culture, or Slavic Orthodox culture.
- - L'viv, 2001), 654 pp. [16] Explaining that he was combining "the ancient Greek word" genos "(race, tribe) and the Latin" cide "(killing)," he added in a footnote, "Another term could be used for the same idea, namely," ethnocide, "consisting of the Greek word 'ethnos'-nation-and the Latin word
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